Sreejith Rajashekaran
Engineering Lead / Area Product Owner
Bangalore
Summary
- 11+ years of significant experience in the Software Industry, with 8 plus years in SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd as a Techno-Functional expert.
- Engineering Lead (Area Product Owner) for the S/4HANA Cloud, Test Data Refresh solution.
- Product Owner for the AFS migration solution in SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit and SAP S/4HANA Data Transformation: Map Fiscal Year Variants for Conversion.
- Agile Methodology and Agile Software Engineering Coach and Evangelist.
- Lead for People and Talent Resilience Focus Group here at S/4HANA Data Transformation department.
- Lead for Co-Innovation based Product Development with Nike.
- Core Member of SAP Labs India Developer Efficiency Workstream.
- Core Member of SAP Agile Software Engineering Coach Community.
- Core Member of SAP Labs India Product Owner Mentorship Program.
- Lead for S/4HANA India Fitness Together Program.
- Co-innovator of Learning @ SAP Labs India – The Burgeon Program.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
5
5
Languages
Work History
Engineering Lead (Area Product Owner)
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
BANGALORE
08.2021 - Current
- Agile Methodology and Agile Software Engineering Coach and Evangelist.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
- Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Worked with customers to understand needs and provide excellent service.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
- Reduced TCO (Total Cost Of Operation) for SAP by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.
- Complete responsibility of executing the planning and development aspect of the S/4HANA Cloud, Test Data Refresh solution and being just one of the three Engineering Leads in the whole department.
- Youngest member of the team to take up the role of Engineering Lead, resulting from my intuitive planning skills.
- The development of the solution was managed by consuming four scrum teams and four Product Owners, considering the magnitude of the solution.
- Managed the people oriented aspects of scrum teams by making sure the collaboration across the teams were efficient.
- Came up with many unique initiatives for stakeholder collaboration:
- Fortnightly stakeholder alignment meetings.
- Central collaboration channel set up using Chatbots, Teams Channel, SAP Wiki pages and so on.
- Pioneered as the lead for coming up with an innovative idea for the Latest Innovation content of SAP: SAP S/4HANA 1S4HC (3SL) and the integration of Test Data Refresh solution into the Content Lifecycle Management.
Product Owner
SAP Labs India Pvt LTd
Bangalore
04.2018 - Current
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Managing a team of 12 colleagues, including their People and Product related aspects.
- Pioneered the development of the migration solution for SAP AFS to SAP S/4HANA Fashion and Vertical Business Solution.
- Leading the Co-innovation project with Nike for the SAP AFS Migration Solution.
- Planned and executed the end to end development of the SAP S/4HANA Data Transformation: Map Fiscal Year Variants for Conversion application on S/4HANA Cloud.
- Responsible for requirements gathering, scope finalization, functional scope evaluation, Migration Objects design and architecture and Innovation initiatives. Playing the role of key decision maker when it comes to solutioning.
- Successfully completed the solution spanning across both the Wholesale and Manufacturing domains of Fashion is a record time of less than one year, with a complete set of 72 migration objects.
- Set up a strong collaboration network with multiple teams across SAP to build expertise in AFS and S/4HANA Fashion and Vertical Business, which was very challenging.
- Empowered the scrum team in building functional knowledge in both AFS and S/4HANA, to build a successful migration solution .
- In addition to AFS objects, I am also responsible for ERP Logistics objects pertaining to Quality Management, Environmental Health and Safety and Real Estate (partly FI) as the Product Owner.
- Set up Partner Workshops and Customer Engagement Initiatives, as an innovation initiatives to validate the migration solution before being released to the customers.
- Conducted and hosted lecture sections on Migration Cockpit at various prestigious events at SAP like SAP TechEd, SAP DKOM, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Day, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Foundation Customer Meets Developer Day, SAP S/4HANA Fashion Council and so on.
- As an Agile Methodology Expert, coached the scrum teams in implementing agile concepts and be more productive.
- As an Agile Software Engineering Expert, coached the scrum teams in Clean Design and Clean AUNITs concepts, to help the team reduce maintenance effort.
Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2013 - 03.2018
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in [Area of expertise] and working to improve overall team performance.
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Worked as a stand-in Architect for the SAP TDMS Scrambling solution, responsible for Solution Design and Architecture and Innovation initiatives. Playing the role of key decision maker when it comes to solutioning.
- Worked as the Topic Lead for TDMS ERP solution, performing tasks like Specifications Creation, Design Creation, Design Reviews, Development of Core Functionality, Testing and so on. Played a major role in guiding and reviewing development tasks assigned to other colleagues.
- Worked extensively on performance oriented refactoring of TDMS ERP header activities with many innovative ideas.
- Supported customer incidents on a daily basis and received many appreciations from customers. Many customers, explicitly requested for me to be assigned as the processor in the incidents, which was a proud moment for me.
- Successfully implemented multiple TDMS customer projects onsite, being the only resource assigned to it.
- Participated in multiple customer escalation for TDMS, leading to development and enhancements of existing content in a very short period of time. Received many appreciations for my dedication and customer centricity.
- Worked on creating an official training course for TDMS, that could be offered to customers to educate them on how to work with TDMS.
- Executed multiple customer executions for TDMS: BHP Billiton, Infosys Corporation, Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Australian Department of Defence (DoD) and so on.
- Worked as a Topic Lead for the Migration Tool used for onboarding customer on to SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Cloud for Customers.
- Executed and handled multiple customer escalations during my tenure as the lead for the topic. Being a cloud solution, the downtime was considered very crucial.
- Extensively participated in the re-design of the Architecture, leading to stabilization of the product and reducing customer incidents.
- Supported customer incidents, focusing more on quality.
- Set up collaborative network with Primary Support team and educated them more on the Migration Tool, to support customers more efficiently at the first level.
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bangalore
06.2010 - 01.2013
- Deployed in SAP Labs as a contract user from Cognizant, deployed in the development team of SAP Regression Scope Analyzer (RSA) solution.
- Worked as a Developer in ABAP technology and Web Dynpro
- Responsible for application development, unit testing and bug fixing
- Responsible for coding the new requirements
- Worked on Module pool programming, Object Oriented ABAP coding, Web Dynpro coding, Object Oriented ALVs, Reports, Screen Programming etc
- Designed and implemented complicated UIs, satisfying the Customer Requirements
- Worked as a Developer in ABAP OOPS technology for the FI rollout of Wal-Mart
- Responsible for developing many medium and complex objects in OOPs ABAP
- Objects involving Reports, Smart Forms and so on are all developed fully in OOPS
- Designed and implemented complicated UIs, satisfying the Customer Requirements
- Always adhered to the standards demanded by the client.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Amrita School of Engineering
Bangalore 04.2006 - 05.2010
P.U.C - PCMB - Physics Chemistry Mathematics Biology
Indiranagar PU College
Bangalore 04.2004 - 04.2006
S.S.L.C -
Kairalee Nilayam High School
Bangalore 04.1994 - 04.2004
SAP Labs - undefined
India Pvt. Ltd
01.2013 - 1 1
Skills
Product Team Leadership
Risk Assessments
Stakeholder relationship management
Problem identification
Scrum methodology
Written Communication
Technical expertise
Accomplishments
- Agile Methodology and Agile Software Engineering Coach and Evangelist
- Efficient Engineering Lead and Product Owner, delivering three full fledged successful software products over the last four years.
- Lead for People and Talent Resilience Focus Group here at S/4HANA Data Transformation department
- Lead for Co-Innovation based Product Development with Nike
- Core Member of S/4HANA People and Talent Resilience Workstream
- Core Member of SAP Labs India Developer Efficiency Workstream
- Core Member of SAP Agile Software Engineering Coach Community
- Core Member of SAP Labs India Product Owner Mentorship Program
- Lead for S/4HANA India Fitness Together Program
- Co-innovator of Learning @ SAP Labs India – The Burgeon Program
Certification
SAP S/4HANA Next Generation Leadership Curriculum
Hobbies
Apart from the professional aspects, I am a fitness freak. I keep fit with regularly work out and sports sessions. I am also a avid rider, exploring new and untamed terrains across India on a two wheeler.
Awards
- S/4HANA Data Transformation "North Star" award.
- S/4HANA "How We Run" award.
Timeline
Engineering Lead (Area Product Owner)
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
08.2021 - Current
SAP S/4HANA Next Generation Leadership Curriculum
08-2021
SAP Development Expert Curriculum
04-2020
Product Owner
SAP Labs India Pvt LTd
04.2018 - Current
Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer
SAP Labs India Pvt Ltd
01.2013 - 03.2018
SAP Labs - undefined
India Pvt. Ltd
01.2013 - 1 1
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2010 - 01.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Amrita School of Engineering
04.2006 - 05.2010
P.U.C - PCMB - Physics Chemistry Mathematics Biology
Indiranagar PU College
04.2004 - 04.2006
S.S.L.C -
Kairalee Nilayam High School
04.1994 - 04.2004